Enlarging Insularity
Patrick McGuinness: Donald Davie, 20 January 2000
With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 346 pp., £14.95, October 1998,1 85754 394 7 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 346 pp., £14.95, October 1998,
“... Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Daryush and the fraternity of poets anthologised by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville in A Various Art. It also includes a number of Davie’s poems. If we were to read the adjective ‘British’ in the subtitle of the book as an indication of defensive nationalism, we would be seriously wrong. Davie writes of Charles Tomlinson ... ”